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Guillermo del Toro gave us advice on making your own monsters

Guillermo del Toro told us about making monsters in his creepy ass house

If you want to make a monster, Guillermo del Toro has some advice for you: Don’t look at monsters.

The director of the newly released “The Shape of Water” gave us a tour of his workspace in Los Angeles where he creates the magical characters in his films. “A lot of people, when they design creatures, they reference [other] creatures. And that’s the worst thing you can do,” he said. “Because then you’re going to regurgitate somebody else’s process and that’s it.”

Instead, del Toro maintains a massive, incredibly creepy library in his home, named Bleak House, that provides him with plenty of alternatives: mannequins, Chinese art books, diagrams of animals, and bizarre toys. All of these, somehow, provide inspiration for characters, like the amphibious creature that appears in his new movie.

del Toro told VICE News why he doesn’t like Google and the similarities he sees between Popeye and Jesus.

If you want to make a monster, Guillermo del Toro has some advice for you: Don’t look at monsters.

The director of the newly released “The Shape of Water” gave us a tour of his workspace in Los Angeles where he creates the magical characters in his films. “A lot of people, when they design creatures, they reference [other] creatures. And that’s the worst thing you can do,” he said. “Because then you’re going to regurgitate somebody else’s process and that’s it.”

Instead, del Toro maintains a massive, incredibly creepy library in his home, named Bleak House, that provides him with plenty of alternatives: mannequins, Chinese art books, diagrams of animals, and bizarre toys. All of these, somehow, provide inspiration for characters, like the amphibious creature that appears in his new movie.

del Toro told VICE News why he doesn’t like Google and the similarities he sees between Popeye and Jesus.